Close your eyes and imagine the central government's nuclear weapons the United States. What do you see? Men of military garments, low light and the latest computer with red little lights flashing? Well, sorry to kill your imagination, but the thing is not so - at least in the category of computers. The US government revealed that in fact, the machine that controls the nuclear weapons Obama is a system of the 1970s that reads disks.
Even if you have re-imagined the whole scene can that not so has been able to see right. Floppy disks in question are not even those popularized in Brazil in the 1990s (about 3.5 inches), we are talking about-grandmother version of that technology - 8-inch floppy disks. According to the Department of Defense gringos report, the local armed forces use an IBM / Series 1 to control ICBMs, nuclear bombs, and aircraft fuel carriers. "The system is still in use because basically keeps running," he said in an interview with AFP, the Colonel Valerie Henderson - spokesman for the Pentagon.
In the report itself is made a criticism of the use of IBM. "According to officials, the system [Department of Defense] is made based on technologies that are at the end of their useful lives" say the writers of the text that reinforces "[the computer] has difficult parts to replace because they are now obsolete ".
This story, however, has begun to change. The US government announced that it invested $ 60 million (about US $ 215 million), so that by the end of 2020 the entire system is replaced. The disks themselves should disappear earlier. The plan is for them to be exchanged for digital cards before 2017 end.
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